Marine Le Pen is a French politician who is the president of the National Front, a national-conservative political party in France and one of its main political forces.

Described as more democratic and republican than her nationalist father, she has led a movement of "de-demonization of the Front National" to detoxify it and soften its image

Connor Campbell, financial analyst at Spreadex.com, said: "With Draghi disappointing the euro on Monday, an anti-EU presidential campaign from Marine Le Pen and, perhaps most pressingly, the re-emergence of the debt crisis in Greece (something that never really went away, but that has only just returned to the forefront of investors’ minds) the region is having a largely negative return to the spotlight.

"Most of this angst has been centred on the euro itself, which fell another half a percent against the dollar and 0.2 per cent against the pound."